The Arts of bring up Children
When we were children, what entertainment options did we have? (Black and white) TV, watching the birds fly outside the window, catching spiders and grasshoppers and maybe occasionally going to watch movies. Educational for those times? Yes, maybe. Artistically tailored to exercise the right-brain? Not really, which is why I think many of us in our country aren't your typical creative, out-of-the-box type thinkers. Instead, we tend to be a nation of followers, peons in a daily march onwards no doubt, but with little spark to innovate.
Our life these days is significantly more colourful with a much more extensive array of educational, entertaining and "edutaining" options, which combine both. There are many more learning based programs, which include language, logic/thinking, art, music, dance, outside the regular school curriculum which parents can choose to send their young ones to in order to enrich their minds, promote creativity and add that extra dimension to their experiences.
For us, we like bringing them to watch shows, plays, musicals and even the occasional orchestral performance. Recently, we've gone for quite a number of storytelling and kid-friendly plays at the Esplanade and they've become quite familiar with the place - I myself don't remember stepping inside the Esplanade when I was 6 years old (maybe because it wasn't built yet, but that's not the point), let alone being able to sit down and watch a stage drama unfold before my eyes.
The picture of the left is with the ACT3 crew after a recent show we went to watch on Children's Day.
As their little eyes and ears absorb the sights and sounds, sending signals to their young brains, I hope that neurons are being fired which tickle their tummies, thrill their cortexes and instill feeings of happiness and wonder, which will last a lifetime.
Our life these days is significantly more colourful with a much more extensive array of educational, entertaining and "edutaining" options, which combine both. There are many more learning based programs, which include language, logic/thinking, art, music, dance, outside the regular school curriculum which parents can choose to send their young ones to in order to enrich their minds, promote creativity and add that extra dimension to their experiences.
For us, we like bringing them to watch shows, plays, musicals and even the occasional orchestral performance. Recently, we've gone for quite a number of storytelling and kid-friendly plays at the Esplanade and they've become quite familiar with the place - I myself don't remember stepping inside the Esplanade when I was 6 years old (maybe because it wasn't built yet, but that's not the point), let alone being able to sit down and watch a stage drama unfold before my eyes.The picture of the left is with the ACT3 crew after a recent show we went to watch on Children's Day.
As their little eyes and ears absorb the sights and sounds, sending signals to their young brains, I hope that neurons are being fired which tickle their tummies, thrill their cortexes and instill feeings of happiness and wonder, which will last a lifetime.